Comment by pbiggar

Even if you don't do the course, the first paper they list is a fascinating must-read:

Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong! Todd Mytkowicz, Amer Diwan, Matthias Hauswirth, and Peter F. Sweeney. ASPLOS 2009.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2528521.1508275

I happened to be at that ASPLOS and I thought it was fascinating. Good to see it recognized as one of the most important papers in compilers.